Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building.

Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Friday, March 7, 2014, in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building. There were security cameras in front of the building but not in the back.

3/6/14: Javier Jimenez, who works at the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store throws away trash into the dumpster which was next to the two dead bodies. Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building. There were security cameras in front of the building but not in the back.

3/6/14: Javier Jimenez, who works at the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart...

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3/6/14: Newscasters report a live broadcast at the scene where the two bodies were found. Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building. There were security cameras in front of the building but not in the back.

3/6/14: Javier Jimenez, who works at the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store throws away trash into the dumpster which was next to the two dead bodies. Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building. There were security cameras in front of the building but not in the back.

3/6/14: Javier Jimenez, who works at the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart...

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3/6/14: Javier Jimenez, who works at the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store throws away trash into the dumpster which was next to the two dead bodies. Blood stains lay next to a dumpster in the 700 block of Highway 87 on the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston, Texas. The Sherriff Office is investigating a double homicide at the scene behind the Fisherman's Cove Food Mart and Convenient Store. The bodies were found between the dumpster and the abandoned building. There were security cameras in front of the building but not in the back.

PORT BOLIVAR - Relatives of two slain Houston women held hands and bowed their heads in prayer Tuesday at the spot here where the bodies were found last week next to a dumpster.

Civil rights activist Quanell X led them in prayer behind a convenience store in Port Bolivar near the Bolivar Ferry to draw attention to the hunt for the killer of Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson, both 24. A beer delivery driver discovered the bodies of the two friends Friday.

Cosby died from blows to the head and Jackson from a gunshot, Galveston County Sheriff's Maj. Darrell Isaacks said. Isaacks declined to reveal where on her body Jackson was shot, saying release of the information might endanger the investigation.

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As the small knot of relatives sobbed, Quanell X ask God to help "solve this horrible crime." After the prayer he pleaded for members of the community to come forward with information, asking for an end to the "no-snitch policy" in the black community where distrust of the police runs deep. "The no-snitch policy has no place in our community," he said.

They prayed next to the dumpster at the request of Patricia Nixon, 64, Cosby's grandmother. "It's not right to take someone's life," said Nixon, who described her granddaughter as a hard worker well-liked by the manager at the Starbucks in the Galleria where she worked.

Jackson's uncle, John Cooks, begged through tears for anyone with information to give it to investigators. "Please, God knows, please turn him in," Cooks said.